The Ministry of Interior said Sunday that a wanted Al-Qaeda-linked militant had turned himself in to the authorities. Spokesman for the ministry Mansour Al-Turki said that Aqil Amish Aqil Al-Mutairi, number 57 on the ministry's list of wanted terror suspects abroad, arrived in Saudi Arabia last Wednesday after expressing a wish to return to his home country and family. “He will be handled according to procedures applied in such cases and his initiation of the move will be taken in consideration,” the ministry spokesman said, reiterating the ministry's call for wanted persons to hand themselves in and avail themselves of its surrender conditions. Al-Turki did not reveal which country Al-Mutairi had been living in prior to his return, but Saudi Gazette reported in Feb. 2009 that Al-Mutairi, 31 at the time, had left his home town of Al-Bikairiyah in central Saudi Arabia for Iraq three years earlier. He was reported as last having had contact with his family in the last months of 2008. Last year, the Saudi government published a list of 85 men worldwide it said adhered to ‘deviant' ideologies.
